Re: [help-texinfo] Re: latex to texinfo converstion

[John Gabriele]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 4:16 PM, tyler <address@hidden> wrote:
> "John Gabriele" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:35 PM, tyler <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was wondering what the best available program for conversion from
>>> LaTeX to TeXinfo is. I found some old (2002, 2004) threads on this list
>>> pointing to Python, but the links are now stale. Any pointers?
>>>
>>
>> Well, how long is the document? If it were short enough, I'd probably
>> just hack up some little perl scripts to get me most of the way there,
>> and then do the rest with the assistance of Emacs and its Texinfo
>> mode.
>
> I'm just starting on some projects, initially short, but potentially
> becoming quite involved - basically, lecture notes and labs for a series
> of grad courses. I don't expect my audience will include many Emacs
> users, so pdf/html will be the primary output format. [snip]

Oh, well, if you're writing the docs from scratch, you might be able
to write them in Texinfo and then convert to LaTeX as-needed.

I haven't tried it, but a quick googling turn up this:

* <http://www.nongnu.org/texi2latex/>
* <https://launchpad.net/texi2latex>

---John